Directions: Read text I and answer questions 33 to 36.

TEXT I

Alexa, What Is There to Know about Love?

Brian Bilston

Alexa, what is there to know about love?

What is there to know about love?

A glove is a garment that covers the hand

for protection from the cold or dirt and –

5

Alexa, how does a human heart work?

How does a human heart work?

Blood is first received in the right atrium via

two veins, the vena cava superior and inferior –

10

Alexa, where do we go to when we die?

Where do we go to when we die?

Activating Google Maps. Completed activation.

Would you like to start from your current location?

15

Alexa, what does it mean to be alone?

What does it mean to be alone?

It is the silence left by words unsaid,

the cold expanse of half a bed.

20 It is the endless stretching of the hours,

the needless tending of plastic flowers.

It is an echo unanswered in a cave,

the fateful ping of the microwave.

It is the fraying of a worn shirt cuff,

25 and the howl – Stop, Alexa. That’s enough.

Available on: https://brianbilston.com/2018/07/23/alexa-what-is-there-toknow-about-love/. Accessed on February 24^th, 2025

Directions: Read text I and answer questions 33 to 36.

TEXT I

Alexa, What Is There to Know about Love?

Brian Bilston

Alexa, what is there to know about love?

What is there to know about love?

A glove is a garment that covers the hand

for protection from the cold or dirt and –

5

Alexa, how does a human heart work?

How does a human heart work?

Blood is first received in the right atrium via

two veins, the vena cava superior and inferior –

10

Alexa, where do we go to when we die?

Where do we go to when we die?

Activating Google Maps. Completed activation.

Would you like to start from your current location?

15

Alexa, what does it mean to be alone?

What does it mean to be alone?

It is the silence left by words unsaid,

the cold expanse of half a bed.

20 It is the endless stretching of the hours,

the needless tending of plastic flowers.

It is an echo unanswered in a cave,

the fateful ping of the microwave.

It is the fraying of a worn shirt cuff,

25 and the howl – Stop, Alexa. That’s enough.

Available on: https://brianbilston.com/2018/07/23/alexa-what-is-there-toknow-about-love/. Accessed on February 24^th, 2025

Directions: Read text I and answer questions 33 to 36.

TEXT I

Alexa, What Is There to Know about Love?

Brian Bilston

Alexa, what is there to know about love?

What is there to know about love?

A glove is a garment that covers the hand

for protection from the cold or dirt and –

5

Alexa, how does a human heart work?

How does a human heart work?

Blood is first received in the right atrium via

two veins, the vena cava superior and inferior –

10

Alexa, where do we go to when we die?

Where do we go to when we die?

Activating Google Maps. Completed activation.

Would you like to start from your current location?

15

Alexa, what does it mean to be alone?

What does it mean to be alone?

It is the silence left by words unsaid,

the cold expanse of half a bed.

20 It is the endless stretching of the hours,

the needless tending of plastic flowers.

It is an echo unanswered in a cave,

the fateful ping of the microwave.

It is the fraying of a worn shirt cuff,

25 and the howl – Stop, Alexa. That’s enough.

Available on: https://brianbilston.com/2018/07/23/alexa-what-is-there-toknow-about-love/. Accessed on February 24^th, 2025

Direction: Read text IV to answer questions 13 to 16.

TEXT IV

Rocket Man

My father was a rocket man

He often went to Jupiter or Mercury, to Venus or to Mars

My mother and I would watch the sky

And wonder if a falling star

5 Was a ship becoming ashes with a rocket man inside

My mother and I

Never went out

Unless the sky was cloudy or the sun was blotted out

10 Or to escape the pain

We only went out when it rained

My father was a rocket man

He loved the world beyond the world, the sky beyond

15 the sky

And on my mother's face, as lonely as the world in

space

I could read the silent cry

That if my father fell into a star

20 We must not look upon that star again

Tears are often jewel-like

My mother's went unnoticed by my father, for his jewels

were the stars

25 And in my father's eyes I knew he had to find

In the sanctity of distance something brighter than a star

One day they told us the sun had flared and taken him

inside

Adapted from: ROCKET man. Interpreter: Pearls Before Swine. Songwriter: Tom Rapp. In THE USE of Ashes. Interpreter: Pearls Before Swine. Florida: Editor Ogmios, 1970. (03:06). Available on: https://www.vagalume.com.br/pearls-before-swine/rocket-man.html. Accessed on March 17th, 2025.

Direction: Read text IV to answer questions 13 to 16.

TEXT IV

Rocket Man

My father was a rocket man

He often went to Jupiter or Mercury, to Venus or to Mars

My mother and I would watch the sky

And wonder if a falling star

5 Was a ship becoming ashes with a rocket man inside

My mother and I

Never went out

Unless the sky was cloudy or the sun was blotted out

10 Or to escape the pain

We only went out when it rained

My father was a rocket man

He loved the world beyond the world, the sky beyond

15 the sky

And on my mother's face, as lonely as the world in

space

I could read the silent cry

That if my father fell into a star

20 We must not look upon that star again

Tears are often jewel-like

My mother's went unnoticed by my father, for his jewels

were the stars

25 And in my father's eyes I knew he had to find

In the sanctity of distance something brighter than a star

One day they told us the sun had flared and taken him

inside

Adapted from: ROCKET man. Interpreter: Pearls Before Swine. Songwriter: Tom Rapp. In THE USE of Ashes. Interpreter: Pearls Before Swine. Florida: Editor Ogmios, 1970. (03:06). Available on: https://www.vagalume.com.br/pearls-before-swine/rocket-man.html. Accessed on March 17th, 2025.

Direction: Read text IV to answer questions 13 to 16.

TEXT IV

Rocket Man

My father was a rocket man

He often went to Jupiter or Mercury, to Venus or to Mars

My mother and I would watch the sky

And wonder if a falling star

5 Was a ship becoming ashes with a rocket man inside

My mother and I

Never went out

Unless the sky was cloudy or the sun was blotted out

10 Or to escape the pain

We only went out when it rained

My father was a rocket man

He loved the world beyond the world, the sky beyond

15 the sky

And on my mother's face, as lonely as the world in

space

I could read the silent cry

That if my father fell into a star

20 We must not look upon that star again

Tears are often jewel-like

My mother's went unnoticed by my father, for his jewels

were the stars

25 And in my father's eyes I knew he had to find

In the sanctity of distance something brighter than a star

One day they told us the sun had flared and taken him

inside

Adapted from: ROCKET man. Interpreter: Pearls Before Swine. Songwriter: Tom Rapp. In THE USE of Ashes. Interpreter: Pearls Before Swine. Florida: Editor Ogmios, 1970. (03:06). Available on: https://www.vagalume.com.br/pearls-before-swine/rocket-man.html. Accessed on March 17th, 2025.

Direction: Read text IV to answer questions 13 to 16.

TEXT IV

Rocket Man

My father was a rocket man

He often went to Jupiter or Mercury, to Venus or to Mars

My mother and I would watch the sky

And wonder if a falling star

5 Was a ship becoming ashes with a rocket man inside

My mother and I

Never went out

Unless the sky was cloudy or the sun was blotted out

10 Or to escape the pain

We only went out when it rained

My father was a rocket man

He loved the world beyond the world, the sky beyond

15 the sky

And on my mother's face, as lonely as the world in

space

I could read the silent cry

That if my father fell into a star

20 We must not look upon that star again

Tears are often jewel-like

My mother's went unnoticed by my father, for his jewels

were the stars

25 And in my father's eyes I knew he had to find

In the sanctity of distance something brighter than a star

One day they told us the sun had flared and taken him

inside

Adapted from: ROCKET man. Interpreter: Pearls Before Swine. Songwriter: Tom Rapp. In THE USE of Ashes. Interpreter: Pearls Before Swine. Florida: Editor Ogmios, 1970. (03:06). Available on: https://www.vagalume.com.br/pearls-before-swine/rocket-man.html. Accessed on March 17th, 2025.

Direction: Consider text III to answer questions 10 to 12.

TEXT III

MARK, Tatulli. Heart of the City. Available on: https://www.gocomics.com/blog /326/the-truth-is-out-there-happy-world-ufo-day. Accessed on: February 25th, 2025

Direction: Consider text III to answer questions 10 to 12.

TEXT III

MARK, Tatulli. Heart of the City. Available on: https://www.gocomics.com/blog /326/the-truth-is-out-there-happy-world-ufo-day. Accessed on: February 25th, 2025

Direction: Consider text III to answer questions 10 to 12.

TEXT III

MARK, Tatulli. Heart of the City. Available on: https://www.gocomics.com/blog /326/the-truth-is-out-there-happy-world-ufo-day. Accessed on: February 25th, 2025